Environment Programme
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EFFECTIVE WATER GOVERNANCE
This Strategic Output targets (at the global level) the sustainable use of marine, coastal and freshwater resources and improved access to water supply and sanitation services. Achieving this requires appropriate water governance frameworks (local, national and regional), and the application of integrated water resources management (IWRM) approaches. This service line also promotes cooperation in trans-boundary water management. Through Regional Bureau for Africa and Trans-Boundary River Initiatives (TRIb), the UNDP-Botswana has provided support to the work of Southern African Development Community (SADC) on River Basin Authorities (RBAs) and coordination of funding from Development Partners. To date three RBAs have been established and a fourth one pending signature of Zambia as a Zambezi River Basin country.
2.1 Botswana Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM)
2.2 Orange-Senqu River Basin
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ACCESS TO SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SERVICES
UNDP supports energy activities to reduce poverty and achieve sustainable development objectives at the local, national and global levels. Its work is focused on strengthening national policy frameworks to support energy for poverty reduction; promoting rural energy services to support growth and equity with specific focus on the situation of women; promoting clean energy technologies to mitigate climate change; and increasing access to investment financing for sustainable energy, including through the Clean Development Mechanism. Activities in these areas complement and help integrate GEF programmes in the field of climate change and support sustainable livelihoods. Through the Climate Change-related capacity building, a Technology Needs Assessment was carried out.
3.1 Renewable Energy-Based Rural Electrification Programme (PV Energy)
3.2 Incorporating Non-Motorized Transport Facilities in the City of Gaborone (NMT)
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SUSTAINABLE LAND MANAGEMENT TO COMBAT DESERTIFICATION AND LAND DEGRADATION
Land degradation is one of the major causes of rural poverty, as well as one of its effects. UNDP works to break this cycle and reduce poverty through sustainable land management and by maintaining land-based ecosystem integrity, particularly in drylands where the poorest, most vulnerable and marginalized people live. UNDP assists countries and communities in land governance, drought preparedness, reform of land tenure and promotion of innovative and alternative sustainable land practices and livelihoods. Special emphasis is given here to the situation of rural women. UNDP supports institutional and systemic capacity building to address desertification and land degradation for rural poverty reduction, through local, national and global multi-stakeholder dialogue and action. UNDP promotes the mainstreaming and integration of major environmental conventions to reduce land degradation, help land users adapt to climate change, and maintain services through ecosystem integrity.
4.1 Management of Indigenous Vegetation for the Rehabilitation of Degraded Rangelands (IVP)
4.2 Sustainable Land Management (SLM)
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CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABLE USU OF BIODIVERISTY
Through a close integration of GEF and core activities, UNDP helps countries and communities maintain and benefit from the biodiversity and ecosystem services that underpin human welfare and economic development, and provide the poor with food security, fuel, shelter, medicines and livelihoods – as well as clean water, disease control, and reduced vulnerability to natural disasters. UNDP supports the sustainable management of agriculture, fisheries, forests and energy, and a pro-poor approach to conservation and protected areas, biotechnology and the development of viable, new markets for ecosystem services.
5.1 Southern Africa Biodiversity Support Programme (SABSP)
5.2 Capacity Building for Conservation of the Okavango Delta (Botswana Wetland)
5.3 Birdlife Africa
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POLICY AND PLANNING TO CONTROL EMISSIONS OF CHEMICALS
The project on Hazardous Wastes and Toxic Chemicals is aimed at preparation of national inventories on Polychlorinated Bi-Phenyls (PCBs) and PCB-containing equipment. It is part of the implementation of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (2001), the Basel Convention on the Control of Trans-boundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal (1989) and the Rotterdam Convention on the “Prior Informed Consent” Procedure (1998). The Project enhances national capacities for the environmentally sound management of PCBs through the development of regionally harmonised national inventories. The project is implemented in Angola, Botswana, DR Congo, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Tanzania. The Botswana component (costing US14, 000) is being implemented as a joint project with Zambia through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the National Environmental Laboratory (Botswana) and Environmental Council of Zambia (Zambia).
6.1 Polychlorinated Bi-Phenyls (PCB) Inventories
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